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By Allan Gardyne (Published on 01/15/2006)

These free marketing courses produced by an internationally acclaimed Internet marketer, Ken Evoy, show you, using a step-by-step process, how to build an online business in an efficient and profitable manner. (UPDATED 2008.)
What is the easiest way to promote an affiliate product?

Build a themed web site - a site created around one particular theme. Make sure that every page on the site concentrates on one topic, which is closely related to your over-all theme.

An excellent tool for building themed sites is Site Build It! You're building for the future when you use it.

Another easy option: Buy a new domain name and set up a small, interesting, useful web site, specially for one product, or three to five closely related products.

Before you build your site, consider carefully how you're going to get traffic to it. If you're relying on free search engine traffic, it's absolutely essential that you build the sort of site which people will want to link to. If you have no links to your site, you'll have no traffic.

Learn how to get the site well ranked in search engines. Ken Evoy's book Make Your Site Sell includes more than 300 pages of excellent advice on ranking well in search engines. It's a superb Internet marketing manual better value than many manuals which are about 10 times the price.

Experienced affiliates often use pay per click advertising on Google's AdWords to promote specially designed landing pages or mini-sites. This can be highly effective but it's also very easy for a beginner to spend more than any commissions earned. Start slowly and be prepared to do a lot of learning if you try this technique.

Perry Marshall, author of The Definitive Guide to Google AdWords, is an acknowledged expert on AdWords. If you want to try PPC advertising, I recommend you start with his advice.

Sell what you know and love (Courses updated 2008)

These free marketing courses produced by an internationally acclaimed Internet marketer, Ken Evoy, show you, using a step-by-step process, how to build an online business in an efficient and profitable manner.

On the Internet right now, one small business opportunity stands head and shoulders above all the rest...

It's selling what you already know and love. If you do that, building an online business won't seem like work. It will be more like participating in a hobby you enjoy - only you'll earn income in the process!

These free marketing courses will show you how to do it. I highly recommend you download them and see just how valuable they are.

1. Recommend other people's products and collect the commissions.

As an affiliate, you don't have to worry about manufacturing a product, processing an order, shipping anything, or answering customers' emails.

The merchant does all that for you.

It's a wonderful way to get started in e-commerce. Just find manufacturers who make products related to an area that you know, join their affiliate programs, and start referring business and earning income.

I've been earning a very nice living by doing this since 1998. I strongly recommend it.

2. Sell your services

People will pay for your knowledge and skills.

Perhaps you haven't thought of this option. If so, don't dismiss it lightly.

3. Writing that sells.

To succeed at making money from your knowledge and skills (using either of the two ways mentioned above) there's one essential skill you really must have - Netwriting.

If you start an affiliate business, your words must PRE-sell. If you want to convince people to try your service, you must use words to build TRUST. And if you're selling your own product, your words must persuade your visitors to buy.

4. Sell at the perfect price.

Selling at the right price can be the difference between profitability and failure. Learning how to discover the "perfect price" is something that every entrepreneur needs to learn how to do.

Because if your prospective customer doesn't feel that they are personally profiting from using your product or service, they'll never buy from you again.

After reading Make Your Price Sell!, there will be no more "guessing" what price to sell your products. You'll know what price to go with, using proven and tested methods.

5. Work at home moms

It skillfully explains why having a successful affiliate website is the ideal answer for most mothers at home. Whether they are moms with young children or would-be empty-nesters. It starts right from the beginning, from reviewing all of the options and organizing properly, to the nitty-gritty of how to actually build a substantial income online.

WAHM It! is a dream come true for any woman who has battled with the question, "Now what do I do?" when they have often given up meaningful, well-paid jobs to stay at home and care for their children.

6. Sell products on eBay

Have a product to sell? There isn't a faster or easier way to sell your product than through net auctions such as eBay. Turn your closet full of junk into your own start-up eBusiness.

The Net auction business is an easy, low-cost, no-risk entry into e-commerce. There are virtually no start up costs and you can get started in as little as five minutes.

7. Already a skilled webmaster?

If you have good skills as a webmaster, consider setting up your own webmaster business. More and more small business owners are looking for help as they make the move to online promotion. Most don't have the time or skills to build their own site. As a result, they are actively seeking affordable webmasters.

So capitalize on this growing demand by setting up your own home-based business. Do the kind of work you love and reap all the financial benefits - i.e., the profit!